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“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

“The only journey is the one within.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”
― Frederick Matthias Alexander

“The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.”
― Sigmund Freud

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself”
― Seneca

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston Churchill

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy

“Action is the antidote to despair.”
― Joan Baez

“Out of difficulties, grow miracles”
― Jean de La Bruyère

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”
― Sir Francis Drake

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus

“The man who chases two rabbits, catches neither.”
― Confucius

“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast...and one day you will build something that endures: something worthy of your potential.”
― Epictetus

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
― John Wooden

“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.”
― Paolo Coelho

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

“Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.”
― Alan Watts

“So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.
In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings